Underscoring-rule.



J. T. BARTON. UNDERSGORING RULE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 10, 1913. 1,090,965.

Patented Mar. 24, 1914 \0|."-\\HIA PLANOGRAPH C0,. WASHINGTON. n. z

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JOSEPH '1. BARTON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOB, TO FRANK G. FORBES,OF

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

UNDEESGORING-RULE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patgnted E1 24L 1914 Application filedMarch 10, 1913. Serial No. 753,245.

view of the preferred form of my underscoring rule shown in Figs. 1 and2.

Referring to the drawing, 5 designates a row of type-blocks bearing onone end thereof the type-letters 6.

7 designates various pieces of printers furniture that are assembledwith the type in the usual way to make the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2.8 designates the main body portion of my improved underscoring rule. Atits upper edge the body 8 is provided with a laterally extending flange9 that overlies the lower edge of the type-blocks 5 directly beneath theletters thereon. The flange 9 is of somewhat greater width than theunderscoring line to be printed thereby, so that the inner portion ofthe flange lying nearest to the body 8 is countersunk or rabbeted, asshown at 10, leaving the upper or printing surface which forms the typefor the underscoring line of a width corresponding to the desired widthof the latter.

The underscoring rule is set either di rectly against the type-blocks orspaced therefrom by one or more strips 11 each one or more points inthickness, according to the desired degree of proximity of theunderscoring line to the type. It is thus possible to print theunderscoring line directly against the lower ends of the type formingthe word or group of words underscored, or, by the use of one or morethin spacers such as 11, at any desired distance therefrom.

I claim- A printers underscoring rule, comprising a flat body portionand a flange on one edge thereof that extends laterally of and overhangsone side of said body portion and is adapted to overlap a type-blockbelow the type-letter on the latter, the inner portion of the uppersurface of said flange being countersunk to afford a relatively narrowprinting edge laterally ofiset relatively to that side of the bodyportion which said flange overhangs.

JOSEPH T. BARTON.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Josnrrr T. BARTON, acitizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cookand State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Underscoring Rules, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the art of printing, and has reference moreparticularly to a printers appliance in the nature of an underscoringrule.

leretofore, so far as I am aware, it has been impossible, in theprinting of an un* derscoring line in printed matter, to set the saidunderscoring line close enough beneath the printed word or group ofwords to make a neat and attractive appearance, owing to the fact thatthe width of the typeblock carrying the type-letters is considerably inexcess of the width of the letters themselves, and the further fact thatthe underscoring rule has heretofore consisted simply of a plain fiatstrip or bar of metal of uniform thickness throughout, set against thelower side of a row of type-blocks, with one of its longitudinal edgesforming the printing edge of the rule.

The object of my present invention is to eliminate this defect andproduce an improved underscoring rule whereby the underscoring line maybe printed as close beneath the letters ofthe underscored word or wordsas may be desired to secure the neatest and best effect; and this objectI accomplish by forming on what corresponds to the printing edge of theusual underscoring rule a laterally extending rabbeted lip or flangethat may overlie the upper edge of this row of type-blocks thus bringingits printing edge in close juxtaposition to the lower ends of thetype-letters on said blocks.

The device of my invention, its mode of use, and its advantages will bereadily understood when considered in connection with the followingdetailed description and the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 isa top-plan view of a short type form which includes my improved under-Witnesses: scoring rule. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional L. E. SWEINHART,View of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective detail G. B. PERKINS.

Copies of thin patent may he obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Gommissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G."

